Mormon polygamy shoshone idaho biography
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In 1830, a new religion was born in the United States with the publication of The Book of Mormon. The new religion, founded by Joseph Smith, is unusual among non-Indian religions in that it incorporates some understanding of Indians into its teachings. The Book of Mormon, upon which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is based, offers a history of Indians and sees them as the descendents of the tribe of Joseph, one of Israel’s twelve tribes. Following the Resurrection, Jesus Christ appeared among the Indians in the guise of Viacocha, Kukulcan, or Quetzalcoatl. In founding the new religious movement, Smith announced that he had a revelation to carry the message of the Book of Mormon to the Indians.
In 1846, the Mormons entered what is now Utah and began to build their Kingdom of God on Earth. Upon entering the Salt Lake Valley, the Mormons abandoned their earlier policy of buying or renting land from Indians and declared ownership based on divine donation and beneficial use. The area where the Mormons settled was a contested buffer zone between the Ute and the Shoshone. The Mormons intended to stay in Utah and thus they needed to develop a stable relationship with the Native Americans who inhabited the area. Brigham Young en
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Review
Title: The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History
Author: Darren Parry
Publisher: BCC Press
Genre: History
Year Published: 2019
Number of Pages: 165
Binding: Paper
Price: $9.95
Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton for the Association for Mormon Letters
The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History, by Darren Parry, Chairman of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone, is the first book to tell the story of “the largest massacre of Native Americans by federal troops in the history of the United States” from the perspective of the Shoshone Nation (p.7). While the story of the Bear River Massacre is at the center of “A Shoshone History,” it is far more than just a detailed telling of this horrible mass murder, it is also the story of how “the Northwestern Shoshone people have sprung up from this humiliation and can hold their heads high,” (p. 54); it is the story of the great people that they were, are, and will be. As the book ends, Chairman Parry shares this quote: “When we reduce history to just data and we remove the emotion or the spiritual side, we lose some of the humanity that makes history important” (p. 99). In “A Shoshone History,” Parry masterfully weaves the history and the data with the personal stories with a pathos and a love for his people that allows the reade
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